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Dead camel thorn trees, Deadvlei, Namib Desert.
"Deadvlei is a white clay pan located near the more famous salt pan of Sossusvlei, inside the Namib-Naukluft Park in Namibia. Also written DeadVlei or Dead Vlei, its name means "dead marsh" (from English dead, and Afrikaans vlei, a lake or marsh in a valley between the dunes).
The clay pan was formed after rainfall, when the Tsauchab river flooded, creating temporary shallow pools where the abundance of water allowed camel thorn trees to grow. When the climate changed, drought hit the area, and sand dunes encroached on the pan, which blocked the river from the area.
The trees died, as there no longer was enough water to survive. There are some species of plants remaining, such as salsola and clumps of nara, adapted to surviving off the morning mist and very rare rainfall. The remaining skeletons of the trees, which are believed to have died 600–700 years ago (ca. 1340-1430), are now black because the intense sun has scorched them. Though not petrified, the wood does not decompose because it is so dry."
Dieses Geschäft an der 'Death Valley Junction' ganz inder Nähe zum Amargosa Opera House verkauft keine Kleider. Es ist vielmehr eine namenlose Kunstinstallation in surrealer Umgebung.
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This shop at Death Valley Junction, near the Amargosa Opera House, doesn't sell clothes. Rather, it's a nameless art installation in a surreal setting.
Arid and breathtaking. The cracked landscape is a reminder of the harsh conditions that characterise Death Valley. The Winter has allowed me to explore the park freely and leisurely, in a way largely intangible in the warmer seasons.
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Death Valley National Park, looking down at Badwater. Below, is the lowest point in the United States.
Pulled this out from our trip to Death Valley last year. This was the day before we broke down in the middle of the desert...
Death Valley, California, November 2014
Fuji X20
Fotógrafo/Photographer: Javier Castillo
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We impact each other in ways we cannot imagine in life and in death. Thank you to those to have been part of who i am today.....
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{a year of living positively project}
Cause of death...
"Inspector. He was found hanging, had been shot (with bullets sticking out of him - one for the esotericists there), stabbed and the victim of blunt force trauma. What shall I put it down as...?"
"Pass me that cotton wool bud would you PC Bobbins", said Inspector Smart.
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"Death is the second oldest of the Endless. It's hard not to love her. She loves you, after all"
Neil Gaiman.
Explored!
Week 46 — Outtake #1
I don't really like this. At all. But with the insane amount of work I had to clean the sequins and glitter off my bed, I just had to post it.
I'm frustrated. I'm very, very frustrated by my work, right now.
[+1 in the comments]
I've been feeling a deep urge to shoot for myself lately. I love client work, but in order to translate what I feel I am nothing without shooting in corners with low light and call those places my own.
I miss it.
In Death Valley, Mojave Desert near the Furnace Creek Resort, just before sunset.....................
Our last day in Death Valley we were hoping for an epic sunrise over the dunes. We arrived before first light and what had been a cloudless sky for the prior three days was thick with clouds. But we held out hope as the mountains to the East began to light with a bright red glow above their peaks. Alas, the red soon faded and neither the sky nor the dunes ever lit up. The soft light on the dune was our consolation and I got this shot of a softly lit dune against of the dark mountains, with a lone hiker for perspective.
like van gogh and thoreau
death becomes you
why so so?
galileo said the world goes round
but the proof was in the pudding
when he hit the ground.
life is funny
maybe death is too
i guess you've just got to do
what you've got to do…….
All photography & textured effects by Hal Halli. The groovy words as well........
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Autumn in a cemetery for me is like a rolling metaphor. The subtext is the metaphorical death of summer (and another year) overlaid with real (life-ending) death. Beyond the not so subtle metaphor is the often jarring visual sensation. Everything just looks different this time of year. I see things in a way that I'm unaccustomed to and creatively, that's like squirting kerosene into a bonfire. I found myself here on a cold and wet October afternoon. I love shooting autumn color under subdued lighting, and the falling rain made the atmosphere even richer. The color is still there, it's just subdued, and I really love finding new ways to see familiar scenes. I'd walked past this massive gravestone (more of a monument really) hundreds of times over the years without paying much attention to it. Outwardly it is a boxy monolith, devoid of visual interest as far as I'm concerned. Many a time I found myself moving about, trying different camera angles to exclude it from appearing even as a background object in other photos. But this time for some reason I felt drawn to the stone. I stood close and examined it intently for the first time. The upper surface was rougher than I imagined. The wet leaves provided a wonderful textural and color contrast to the cold, hard marble. And there glistening rain drops seemed to unify the scene, to make everything work in concert. And so the shutter snapped on yet another scene that would be impossible to recreate. Time and again I find myself shooting moments in time as much as actual scenes. And coming more often to an understanding of how my mood effects the visual outcome of my photos.
A four-image panorama merged in Lightroom. Image captured during a scouting trip for a Michael Frye Death Valley workshop.
That particular Death Valley sunset was one of the most amazing light shows I’ve witnessed in a as the sky blew up in an amazing array of color. I headed to the Badwater Basin looking for water. Finding water is rare since Death Valley, is the lowest, driest, and hottest spots in North America. Death Valley amazingly averages over a little of an inch a year. Death Valley National Park is in the rain shadow of the Sierra Nevada range and the Mojave Desert which makes for some great weather patterns and sunsets. At Badwater Basin, significant rainstorms periodically flood the valley bottom, covering the salt pan with a thin sheet of water. Newly formed lakes do not last long though, so if you can catch a storm, you're more that lucky. That afternoon as I was waiting for sunset, I spotted a pool. I was excited to use the water for my composition. Soon enough as the sun dropped behind the Pamamint Range as the clouds lite up with color. I love shooting Death Valley sunsets.